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Nobody has ever accused Adolph Rupp of being a nice guy. Rival coaches grumble that "life doesn't really hang on the result of a basketball game, but it seems like it when you play Rupp." In his 36 years at the University of Kentucky, "the Baron of the Bluegrass" has won more games (734), more conference titles (21) and more N.C.A.A. championships (four) than any other coach in the U.S. He has also antagonized more competitors, angered more referees, and annoyed more sportswriters than anybody else in the business-which may or may not account for his success...
Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), will introduce the trainer. Dean Monro, Dean Watson, John Yovicsin, Adolph Samborski '25, F. Skiddy von Stade Jr., '38, Carl Yastremski of the Boston Red Sox, football captains Ken Loyda '66 and Justla Hughes '67, and hosts of great and near-great former Harvard athletes will be among the many present...
...only thing left to do now is to wait and see what happens," said Adolph Samborski, Director of Athletics, when he arrived in Cambridge after attending the convention in Washington. "Our position is clear. We won't leave, but if the filing date goes by and the Ivies don't file, then it's up to the NCAA to tell us that we're not in compliance and what the consequences...
Sculptor Jason Seley said that the market was flooded with fakes: "Some sculptures are simply taken off a Victorian lamp base." But he was one of the few to stick to the subject of forgery. Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb blasted at the public, in general and dealers in particular, saying, "Society doesn't seem to be interested in protecting the artist." Painter Theodoros Stamos lambasted dealers who "hold a picture for two years before they send it back, so you forget what the hell it looks like." Then added, "I don't give a damn about the public...
Liberalism was failing, he suggested, because of its marriage to the "corporate system." Pointing to the Dominican crisis. Oglesby ran down a list of U.S. advisers who owned stock in companies with investments in the Dominican Republic--Ellsworth Bunker, Abe Fortas. Adolph Berle, and Averill Harriman's brother...